Squatter causing load spike

2007-11-13 Thread Gerard
I am running squatter at 3am as a cron job on all of my servers. Over the passed week I have one server where squatter spikes the load and ends up locking up the server at around 8am every morning. Yeah, it seems to take that long to run which may be an issue in itself. Has anyone come accross this

Re: Squatter causing load spike

2007-11-13 Thread Rob Banz
On Nov 13, 2007, at 16:47, Gerard wrote: > I am running squatter at 3am as a cron job on all of my servers. Over > the passed week I have one server where squatter spikes the load and > ends up locking up the server at around 8am every morning. Yeah, it > seems to take that long to run which may

Re: Squatter causing load spike

2007-11-13 Thread Gerard
On Nov 13, 2007 5:07 PM, Rob Banz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 13, 2007, at 16:47, Gerard wrote: > > > I am running squatter at 3am as a cron job on all of my servers. Over > > the passed week I have one server where squatter spikes the load and > > ends up locking up the server at aroun

Re: Squatter causing load spike

2007-11-13 Thread Rob Banz
>> > It seems like the default for cyr_expire runs at 4:00AM (delprune > cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400) and I start squatter at 3:00AM. Do you > think that this would cause the spike and server to lock up? We are > running RHEL4U4 They both compete for a lot of resources... You probably shouldn't